Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Saturday inaugurated via the video-conference the main giant water lifting station in Toskha city, the New Valley governorate.
During the inauguration, the president listened to an explanation about the lifting station by Maj. Gen. Tarek el Weshahy, the supervisor of the project.
“Two giant water lifting stations were carried out to overcome the difference in the water level which is estimated at 40 meters, with a sum of 22 sets of water lifting stations having a total energy capacity of 11.3 million cubic meters,” Weshahy said.
“The stations are operated by the monitoring and remote control system. The first station comprises 12 water lifting sets, with a capacity of 6.3 million cubic meters on daily basis.”
“The second station contains 10 water lifting sets, with a capacity of five million cubic meters daily.”
The stations secure the water needed for cultivating 100,000 feddans of the second phase and between 40,000- 60,000 feddans in the future phase, the head of the project added.
Sisi also opened, via video conference, the wheat harvest season in Toshka 4, where engineer Mukhtar Gamal Abu Aqeel said that the National Company for Land Reclamation and Agriculture was able this year to cultivate 500,000 feddans.
The president watched a documentary about development projects in the South Valley and Toshka, on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of development projects in the South Valley.
The documentary reviewed efforts to eliminate the challenges that faced the Toshka project in order to deliver water to the area in the 1990s, including lack of funding and the presence of natural obstacles and the rough terrain that increased the cost of land reclamation.
The necessary infrastructure for the project includes digging canals, building irrigation networks and center-pivot irrigation systems and establishing two water pumping stations with a capacity to lift 11.3 million cubic meters per day, bringing the total number of main pumping stations to 11.
President Sisi inaugurated via video conference the harvesting of 2,000 feddans of wheat from the Wadi Al-Sheeh project, which was established in cooperation between the Modern Farming Agricultural Production Company and the National Service Projects Organization in Upper Egypt’s Assiut Governorate.
Engineer Issa Serag El-Din said: “2,000 feddans were planted with wheat and the remaining 10,000 feddans with varied crops.”
